Hooked: How to Make Your Novel Impossible to Ignore
Amy Collins
Look, writing a novel is hard. If it were easy, I would’ve finished that “sci-fi epic” I’ve been talking about since 1997. But selling a novel? That’s a whole different Olympic sport — and the judges are grumpy, over-caffeinated, and drowning in submissions. In this session, we’ll walk through how to find the shiny, irresistible idea at the center of your story that makes people say, “Okay, sounds great, I’ll read it.”
We’ll break down your plot, characters, and conflict to uncover what truly makes your book stand out, then we will ask a series of questions designed to get to exactly what makes you and your book special. Whether you write dragons, detectives, doomed lovers, or deeply broken humans (my personal fave), you’ll leave with a pitch and hooks you can use for querying, marketing, and finally being able to answer “so what do you write?” easily and with focus. Come for the insight, stay for the existential crisis about why you started writing — and leave with the sentence that might actually sell your book.
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